Global Warming, the Tea Party, and Unwavering Certainty

With such an amazing guest post on Wednesday, I didn't get to post my own DeSmogBlog piece (which is actually related to, but far less consequential than, Andrea Kuszewski's). So I thought I would do it now. Basically, the piece looks at new data showing that Tea Partiers are considerably worse than mainline Republicans in their rejection of global warming. What I find most disturbing about this is the level of certainty among Tea Party members that they're right--e.g., the people who are most wrong are most sure of themselves. Once again, reminds me of Yeats: